Martino Dibeltulo Concu

Martino Dibeltulo Concu
University of Michigan | U-M · Department of Asian Languages and Culture

Doctor of Philosophy
Currently working on my ASN (abilitazione scientifica nazionale).

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Introduction
I am a cultural and intellectual historian of Buddhism. My main area of expertise is the history and historiography of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist relations. My current projects include a study of the modern incorporation of China into the global flow of European ideas about the Buddha and a trilogy of books on how the study of Buddhist Tantra has influenced Enlightenment legacies and global thought during the modern age.
Education
August 2008 - May 2015
University of Michigan
Field of study
  • Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Publications

Publications (6)
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Tantrism (Ch. Mijiao 密教) is regarded by some as the alien element of magic, ritual, and worship that corrupted Buddhism in India. It is regarded by others as a highly sophisticated vehicle named Vajrayāna. Both views came into play as Tantrism became the focus of Chinese scholars during the Republican period (1912–1949), during which time such famo...
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Nei primi anni Ottanta a Sêrtar, nella provincia del Sichuan, una piccola assemblea di buddhisti si riuniva attorno a Sua Santità Gigme Phuntsok, un eminente lama tibetano fondatore dell’Accademia di Larung Gar. La piccola assemblea dei primi tempi è oggi un’immensa comunità di migliaia di monaci e laici provenienti dal Tibet e dalla Cina. A Sêrtar...
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Philosophy has long become a key term in the study of Buddhism, defining the moral and rational essence of the Buddha’s teaching, emblematic of its Indian origins. In this essay, I suggest that the relation of Buddhism and philosophy, which prior to the mid-nineteenth century was framed as the relation of the Religion of Fo to the cult of voidness,...
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This dissertation considers how Tantrism, a ritual tradition vanished in India and in China, but preserved in modern Japan and Tibet, became a component of the revival of Chinese Buddhism between the two World Wars. Tantrism became appealing to revivalists who, in China's time of internal war and foreign invasion, sought to recover this lost tradit...
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In Chinese, “Grand Voidness”; a leading figure in the Chinese Buddhist revival during the first half of the twentieth century. Taixu was ordained at the age of fourteen, purportedly because he wanted to acquire the super- natural powers of the buddhas. He studied under the famous Chinese monk, “Eight Fingers” (Bazhi Toutou), so called because he ha...
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Twentieth-century Chinese translator of Buddhist scriptures and scholar of Tibetan religious and political history. In 1920, Fazun was ordained as a novice on WUTAISHAN. He became acquainted with Dayong (1893–1929), a student of TAIXU’s who introduced him to the techniques of Buddhist TANTRA, at the time a popular strand of Buddhism in China in its...